beacon-archive

beacon-archive is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Juliocbm/beacon-docs. It costs 71 tokens per session (3,075 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An explicitly invoked command for finding completed Beacon plans or roadmaps and preparing them for archival.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps identify completed plans or roadmaps, show their context, and move selected documents into an archive after you approve.
Why use it?
It prevents shipped work from cluttering active documentation while requiring confirmation before files are moved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the beacon plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/juliocbm/beacon-docs/beacon-archive
Any agent
npx skills add Juliocbm/beacon-docs --skill beacon-archive
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Juliocbm/beacon-docs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install beacon, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for beacon-archive

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/juliocbm/beacon-docs/beacon-archive.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/juliocbm/beacon-docs/beacon-archive)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/juliocbm/beacon-docs/beacon-archive"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/juliocbm/beacon-docs/beacon-archive.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,075 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00071 $0.03075
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01537
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00615
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00308

Measured 5d ago against content hash 84ded5c4a5c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

beacon-archive scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

claude-plugin/skills/beacon-archive/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/beacon:beacon-archive

Moves shipped plans (and roadmaps) to _archive/ after surfacing context for informed consent. This skill performs DESTRUCTIVE filesystem operations — every action requires the user's explicit confirmation, and --force is always a separate consent.

Core principle

Read context. Propose informed. Confirm. Execute.

The CLI's beacon archive command moves files between directories. The operation is recoverable via git but annoying to undo, and silently archiving the wrong plan loses days of in-flight context. Every code path in this skill must end with the user's explicit yes before any move happens.

First action: state detection in parallel

Read the inputs needed for any subsequent decision:

# 1. What types are archivable in this project?
cat docs/_meta/beacon.config.json | jq '.categories'    # check roadmaps add-on

# 2. What active plans exist?
ls docs/plans/*.plan.md 2>/dev/null

# 3. What active roadmaps exist (if add-on enabled)?
ls docs/roadmaps/*.roadmap.md 2>/dev/null

Run these in parallel (single message, multiple tool calls). Then branch based on what you find.

Detect invocation mode

User input Mode
/beacon:beacon-archive (no arg) Selection mode — list items, let user pick
/beacon:beacon-archive <slug> Direct mode — propose specific item, confirm once

Selection mode (most common)

Step 1 — Enumerate AND read

Glob for plans and roadmaps in parallel. Then Read each file in parallel to get checkbox state. Reading is non-optional — checkbox state is the primary "is this done?" signal; mtime is tiebreaker.

Step 2 — Empty state

If no active plans (or roadmaps) exist:

No active plans to archive.

Period. One line. Stop.

Do NOT dump _archive/ contents, do NOT suggest "create a plan first", do NOT apologize. Empty is an answer, not an absence of one. The "earn the turn by padding" pull is the same calibration bug from beacon-doctor's all-clear case — resist it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 239 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 84ded5c4a5c7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

beacon-archive is a skill published in the GitHub repository Juliocbm/beacon-docs (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 3,075 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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